(De)coding modality
Subtitle: the case of must, may, maste, and kan
By: Anna Warnsby.
Series: Lund studies in English -- 113
Publisher: Lund University, Dept. of English; Distribution and sales, Almqvist & Wiksell
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Lund, Sweden; Stockholm, Sweden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9789197515825
Subjects: Modality (Linguistics); English language -- Modality.; Swedish language -- Modality.
Other titles: Decoding modality; Coding modality
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-222) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Prolegomena. Modality ; Modal verbs ; Corpus studies in linguistics ; The aims and the structure of the study; title: 2. Modal contexts. Coates (1983) ; Papafragou's criticism of Coates; title: 3. Modals in context. English modals ; Swedish modals ; Intermediate examples; title: 4. Context revisited. Controllability ; Additional features ; Controllability and transitivity; title: 5. Mining the modals. Data mining ; (De)coding confident inference and obligation ; (De)coding possible conclusion and permission: may ; (De)coding possible conclusion and permission: kan; title: 6. Final remarks. On the universality of the interpretation patterns ; Summing up.